Favij
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| Born | Lorenzo Ostuni 7 April 1995 | |||||||||
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| Also known as | Favij | |||||||||
| Years active | 2007–present | |||||||||
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| Subscribers | 6.57 million[1] | |||||||||
| Views | 4.35 billion[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 2 September 2024 | ||||||||||
Lorenzo Ostuni (Italian pronunciation: [loˈrɛntso oˈstuːni]; born 7 April 1995), known online as Favij (Italian pronunciation: [faviˈdʒɛi]) or FavijTV, is an Italian YouTuber. With over six million subscribers and four billion views,[2] Ostuni has been described as one of the most popular YouTubers in Italy.[3][4] [5]
Life and career
[edit]Internet career and milestones
[edit]Ostuni was born in Mappano, Turin, and took a computer course at ITIS Carlo Grassi. In 2007, he created his first YouTube channel called "lory60056", taking inspiration from his real name, Lorenzo. In 2011, he and two friends began a YouTube channel called "TheSharedGaming".[6][7] Although they typically played first-person shooters, Ostuni did a video playing the indie horror Slender: The Eight Pages (2012).[8]
This video's popularity spurred him to create a solo channel named "FavijTV"[6] on 9 December 2012,[2] with more of a focus on indie games.[8] This channel reached 100,000 subscribers in 2013 and one million subscribers in 2014, the first Italian to cross the milestone.[9] The same year, Ostuni also acted as a correspondent for La Repubblica at BlizzCon,[8] and won the Web Show Awards in the "Gamer" category,[10]
In December 2018, Ostuni reached five million subscribers, becoming the first Italian YouTuber to do so; he also appeared on YouTube Rewind 2018.[11] He created a second channel named "JIVAF" in 2019, which was renamed "LORE". By 2021, his channel was managed by the agency Webstars Channel.[6]
Ostuni is the first professional YouTuber in Italy, as well as the most followed. He lives in Milan.[11] In 2021, Vodafone gave him a new gaming-oriented house to promote their Game Now 5G platform.[12]
Other work
[edit]In 2015, Ostuni made his acting debut in Game Therapy and Mondadori published his first book, an autobiography titled Sotto le cuffie. His second book The Cage was released three years later. Ostuni has also dubbed characters in Disney films such as Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) and Onward (2020) and was a judge on the 2019 Just Dance: World Cup. He has a line of collectible stickers from Panini Group.[6][11]
Internet content
[edit]Ostuni's content mainly consists of Let's Plays,[6] but he also began creating reaction videos[13] and vlogs. After becoming a professional YouTuber, he has stopped using profanity in his videos.[11] Besides YouTube, Ostuni also has followings on Instagram and Facebook.[13]
YouTube channels
[edit]During his time on YouTube, Ostuni has created several channels.
lory60056: his first channel, created in 2007, at the age of 12. In this channel he posted his first ever video, where he showed his home aquarium. The contents of this channel were mainly gameplays of shooting games, videos where he danced to Tektonik music, and random videos, as he said in a video in 2018. All the videos that were originally present on the channel have been deleted by Ostuni himself, except one, uploaded on August 8, 2012, called "HARDEST GAME EVER - DONE!!" where he managed to complete a video game that he considered very difficult.
TheSharedGaming (now NiKyBox): channel created in 2011 with his two friends NiKyBox and iPuffo, where they made gameplay of shooting games like Call of Duty, Skyrim and Battlefield 3. The trio's first video, published on July 22, 2011, in fact, is a commentary of the last one, where however only Favij and NiKyBox are present. After the trio split up at the end of 2012, caused by the creation of the channel FavijTV by Ostuni and the choice to abandon YouTube by iPuffo, NiKyBox remained alone, and the channel became entirely his. Despite this, the friendship between Favij and NiKyBox remained unchanged, and the two continued to collaborate over the years.
FavijTV: main Ostuni's channel created in December 2012. The channel currently has over 6 million subscribers. Its first video is a gameplay of the game Haunt, published on December 18, 2012. Although in the early days it mainly focused on indie games, such as Happy Wheels, Haunt, Penumbra: Overture, Slender: The Eight Pages and others, Ostuni later began publishing vlogs and other types of content. The most popular video on the channel is CROSSBAR CHALLENGE, made in collaboration with the ex youtubers group 'i Mates', which currently has 32 million views.
Favicraft: channel created by Favij in 2011, reserved exclusively for Minecraft gameplays. Nowadays the only video present on the channel is, however, a commentary of the game Modern Warfare 2 made together with his friend NiKyBox, published on June 17, 2011.
LORE (previously JIVAF): secondary Ostuni's channel, created in 2019 under the name "JIVAF", and afterwards changed to "LORE". After the name change Ostuni deleted all the videos he uploaded under the old name and then released the music video for "Anche Meno" on the channel.
Lorenzo Ostuni: personal channel of Favij, created in 2014.
Here he publishes very different content from what he brings to other channels, such as covers/remixes of songs, videos of his private life and more.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "About FavijTV". YouTube.
- ^ a b "FavijTV – YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
- ^ Toniolo, F 2020, ‘I videogiochi su YouTube: un confronto fra Italia ed estero’, in R. Fassone, M.B. Carbone (eds.), Il videogioco in Italia, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, pp. 271–284
- ^ "FAVIJ". Giffoni Film Festival. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
- ^ Toia, Paola (18 October 2019). "YouTube, i 10 autori più amati dai teen". Wired Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 29 March 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "Favij è lo youtuber numero 1 in Italia, volevamo capire un attimo con lui quanto guadagna". Cosmopolitan (in Italian). 27 April 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ Coccorese, Paolo (19 April 2018). "Favij, lo youtuber di Mappano: «Devo tutto alla mia prof»". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ a b c D'Alessandro, Jaime (27 November 2014). "Favij, star di YouTube, "inviato" per Repubblica.it nei videogame". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 29 March 2023.
- ^ Piras, Stefania (26 October 2014). "Favij, ecco chi è l'italiano premiato da Youtube per il suo canale da 1,2 milioni di iscritti". Il Messaggero (in Italian). Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ^ Perna, Mark (16 December 2014). "Le star Youtube ai Web Show Awards". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ a b c d Sciandivasci, Simonetta (24 February 2019). "Due chiacchiere con Favij, il creator più seguito d'Italia". Il Foglio (in Italian). Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ Lichene, Riccardo (3 May 2021). "Favij, lo Youtuber più seguito d'Italia: «Io e i miei fan una grande famiglia, non vedo l'ora di riabbracciarli tutti»". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Arriva il giovane Youtuber Favij". Il Piccolo (in Italian). 6 February 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
Further reading
[edit]- Nepi, Marco (6 May 2020). "Quanto guadagna youtuber Favij: stipendio e patrimonio". The Post Internazionale (in Italian). Retrieved 6 December 2022.